Thank you for prominently featuring plant-based eating on the front page of the food section of Wednesday’s paper. Given that a plant-based lifestyle is the one choice a person can make that enhances human health, drastically reduces one’s contribution to climate change and other environmental problems, and prevents the suffering of animals and workers in animal agriculture, it is certainly a lifestyle worth promoting. Anyone can benefit, even without going all the way to plant-based, by simply reducing animal product consumption and eating more plants. I applaud the Sentinel for giving people information and tools to do just that. Your readers may be interested in a new movement starting in Santa Cruz called Eat for the Earth. The intent of the movement is to ensure a habitable planet by making it easier for people to eat more plants and fewer animal products. To learn more, email me at beth@wholenessworks.com.

— Beth Love, Santa Cruz

The Sentinel welcomes your letters to the editor. Letters should be short, no more than 150 words. We do not accept anonymous letters. Letter-writers should include their full name as well as a street address and telephone number. We don’t publish those details in the newspaper, but need the information for verification purposes. Occasionally, we reject letters simply because we’ve had so many on the same subject. Submit your letters online at santacruzsentinel.com/submit-letters.